Usually means: Rapid increase or upward movement.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. upsweep: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. upsweep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. upsweep: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. upsweep: Collins English Dictionary
  5. upsweep: Wordnik
  6. upsweep: Wiktionary
  7. upsweep: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. upsweep: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. upsweep: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. upsweep: Dictionary.com
  11. Upsweep (unidentified sound), Upsweep: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. upsweep: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Upsweep: Sports Definitions

(Note: See upsweeping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (upsweep)

noun:  An upward sweep or curve.
noun:  (swimming) The upward motion of a swimmer's arm.
noun:  A hairstyle where most of the hair is fastened into place at the top of the head.
noun:  (oceanography) The unidentified sound detected on the American NOAA's equatorial autonomous hydrophone arrays, consisting of a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds of several seconds in duration.
verb:  To sweep or curve upwards.

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